Kind of scary leaving the domain I love more than ever alone there on the web… what a shame… No lame excuses though, I am still alive working on a new layout and thinking about my favourite videos…thinking about the times when I first registered this domain (and it was my first one), thinking about people teaching me how to attach an external style sheet instead of writing all the code into the header section of the xhtml document. Thanks to them I do still recognize my aims…
Most of us know the advantages of today’s web. A lot of media can be easily shared: photos, music and videos. Thnaks to Youtube’s embedding code you can have any video displayed upon your website or blog within seconds. But what about the code? Everytime I tried to embed the video manually, or used one of the plugins offered, the result produced various errors, and often the video was not even embedded, but only the link to the respective video was shown. Today I finally found a nice solution: WP Youtube, a plugin for WordPress. You upload it, activate it and then you can create a so called profile, defining the width of the embedded video and so on. What you get is an embedded video, that is playable AND the admin area of this plugin offers the possibility to select the option “Valid XHTML”. When selected, the code stays error-free and you will have your video embedded without any problems. Check out this video of Matt Mullenweg talking on WordCamp Dallas, for example.